Annual American Composers Update
Dan Locklair
SAI Friend of the Arts Dan Locklair
is Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music at Wake
Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. Mar. 6-8, 1998,
he served as Visiting Composer as part of the 1997-98
Cincinnati (OH) Conservatory Visiting Composer Series.
In 1998, radio broadcasts included an interview and
the Helsinki Philharmonic's performance of Concerto
Grosso throughout Finland (May 11); and Voyage:
a fantasy for organ, with Alan Morrison, on one
of Public Radio International's "Pipedreams" programs
(May 25). In 1997, he presented pre-concert talks on
subscription concert series of the Buffalo Philharmonic
Orchestra (Apr. 24-25) and the Louisville Symphony Orchestra
(Sept. 24-25). He received his 18th consecutive ASCAP
Award, summer 1998. He holds commissions from the American
Guild of Organists for a new work for flute and organ,
to premiere at its 1999 Region IV Convention, June 1999
in Knoxville, TN; and for a new setting of the Gloria,
for choir, brass octet, and percussion, for the Choral
Art Society of Portland, ME, Robert Russell, music director,
to be presented in Dec. 1999.
Premieres
Venite ("O Come, Let Us Sing"),
for SSA choir, piano, and bell, ad lib, was commissioned
and introduced by the Greensboro (NC) Youth Chorus,
Ann Doyle, Music Director and Conductor, May 15, 1998
in celebration of the group's 10th-anniversary year.
On Apr. 16, 1998, organist Robert Plimpton gave the
first Israeli performance of Windows of Comfort,
Organbook II, at the Redeemer Church in Jerusalem.
Performances
The Helsinki Philharmonic, Jukka Tiensuu,
soloist and conductor, presented Concerto Grosso,
for strings, harpsichord, and percussion, Apr. 21, 1998.
In 1998, Uriel Segal conducted HUES for orchestra
with the Buffalo (NY) Philharmonic Orchestra (Apr. 24-25)
and with the Louisville (KY) Symphony Orchestra (Sept.
24-25). Brief Mass was heard at Chorus America's
1998 National Conference, in Houston, TX, with the Houston
Masterworks Chorus (June 5), and at the Southwestern
ACDA Regional Convention, in Corpus Christi, TX with
Houston's St. Paul's Choir (Mar. 27), both led by Music
Director Robert Brewer. Heard in 1998 at the Cincinnati
(OH) Conservatory of Music were Dream Steps (A Dance
Suite for Flute, Viola, and Harp, with the CCM Trio,
on an all-Locklair chamber music concert (Mar. 7); and
For Amber Waves, for five SATB spatial choirs,
with the Vocal Arts Ensemble, Earl Rivers, Music Director
(Feb. 28). Organist Marilyn Keiser played Windows
of Comfort, from Organbook I and II, at the
Montreat Music Conference, in Montreat and Asheville,
NC, June 15 and 22, 1998.
Publications
Holy Canticles (A Suite of Three
Canticles for SSAATTBB choir, a capella); "PHOENIX
Processional" from
PHOENIX Fanfare and Processional
for Organ, Brass, and Percussion; solo organ; both
by Ricordi (
Hal
Leonard Publishing Corp.), summer 1998.
Recordings
Windows of Comfort (movement
III from Organbook I); Keiser; Arkay Records
CD AR6162, fall 1997. A Christmas Pair (1. Down to
the Roots of the World; 2. Lumen de Lumine); Connecticut
Choral Artists (CONCORA), Richard Coffey, Artistic Director
and Conductor; CONCORA CD, fall 1997.
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